1842.] Notes on various Indian and Malayan Birds. 181 



Sumatran species referred to Turdus by Sir Stamford Raffles (ibid, 309 

 et seq.), does there seem to be one appertaining to this genus. The 

 Cr. Reinwardii, again, figured in Swainson's Illustrations, and which 

 was formerly understood to have been received from some part of the 

 Indian archipelago, has since proved to be an inhabitant of Western 

 Africa, as noticed with three other species from that locality in the 

 7th Ornithological volume of the Naturalist's Library. Nevertheless, it 

 can hardly be supposed but that many species inhabit the interior upland 

 districts of the regions adverted to.* 



Cinclidium, Nobis. The genus Cinclidia, Gould (P. Z. S., 1837, 

 236), being identical with Pellornium of Swainson, I transfer the 

 former name (with a slight alteration) to a nearly allied form, charac- 

 terized as follows. Bill shorter than the head, straight, slender, higher than 

 broad, the ridge of the upper mandible tolerably acute, and its tip very 

 slightly emarginated; inferior gonys ascending for the terminal half, 

 imparting to the bill the appearance of a tendency to bend upward : 

 naral apertures an elongate-oval fissure in the lateral nasal membrane, 

 and partially impended by the short semi-reflected frontal feathers : gape 

 armed with a few small setae. Wings and tail rounded, the 4th, 5th, 

 and 6th primaries equal and longest. Legs and toes slender, the tarsi 

 smooth and unscutellate, and very long, as is also the middle toe ; claws 

 but moderately curved, and of little more than mean length. Plumage 

 light, soft, and full, having a scale-like appearance on the crown, 

 breast, and belly. 



19. C. frontale, Nobis. Length 7f inches, of wing from bend 3f 

 inches, and middle tail feathers 3J inches, the outermost f inch shorter ; 



13 3 



bill to forehead nearly f inch, and to gape jg inch ; tarse 1 ~ inch ; 

 middle toe and claw \% inch, and hind toe and claw J inch, the last f 



16 



inch. Plumage dark fusco-cyaneous, the rump dusky ; flanks somewhat 

 ashy, and middle of the belly slightly grey- edged ; lores and immediate- 

 ly above the beak blackish, contrasting with a bright ccerulean forehead ; 

 bend of the wing also ccerulean, but less bright ; and winglet, primaries 

 and their coverts, secondaries and tertiaries, dark olive-brown ; a white 

 spot on the under surface of the wing, beneath the winglet : bill black, 

 and legs dusky-brown. Darjeeling. 



* My supposed variety of Cr. leucolophus (J. A. S., X. 92 1, ^ was received from 

 Tcnasserim. 



